‘tremendous-duper’-grounded-update-actually-does-look-tremendous-till-you-realise-they-added-fricking-wasps

I am a little bit of a pantheist I suppose: I do not consider in a giant beardy god within the sky, however I select to consider there’s one thing divine in all residing creatures. Barring the wasp, which might do one. I hate wasps, the sensation appears to be mutual, and because the summer season rolls round I as soon as extra gear up for battle with the bastards of the skies. If I may press a button and take away all wasps from the face of the Earth I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Sir, that is PC Gamer. Ah sure, effectively I used to be simply taking a look at this spiffing new update for Grounded, Obsidian’s glorious garden-em-up survival sim that pits you in opposition to the innate hostility of bugs. It is known as the Tremendous Duper update as a result of, drum roll please, it provides an merchandise duplication machine known as the Tremendous Duper.

This new system lets gamers duplicate particular gear and gadgets utilizing Uncooked Science and a brand new merchandise known as duper discs discovered within the yard. Your first disc will unlock the machine, and subsequent discs will unlock higher-tier duping prospects. The machine can duplicate trinkets, distinctive gadgets, and improve stones, and most notably the cloned merchandise will retain the entire unique’s smithing upgrades. Mainly that is going to take away (some) of the merchandise grinding, which is nice.

Alongside the Tremendous Duper comes a brand new Base Coziness system (in Grounded you are taking shelter from the insect lots in your base). Buildings, furnishings and decorations now all add as much as a sure coziness stage on your base, which in itself will trigger your character’s coziness stage to rise on this setting and grant useful standing results: lower starvation, thirst drain, and sluggish therapeutic. There are 5 ranges of coziness and each unlocks new ornamental choices, a base constructing mutation, and new emotes. Tied-in with this are nearly 100 new crafting gadgets.

The excellent news does not cease there: now you will have a companion in base constructing, the Useful Gnat. God love this game. The gnat will be roped-in to your base constructing plans and, so long as there’s the assets in your stockpile, left to get on with the precise constructing. Gamers might want to select to activate the Useful Gnat in Survival video games, but it surely’s unlocked by default in Artistic and Artistic with Bugs.

It was all going so effectively after which… wasps. Wasps are actually swarming the yard. “These hostile enemies will certainly sting,” per Obsidian’s patch notes, “and warning ought to be used when making an attempt to satisfy them within the higher yard. In case you find their nests and mess with them an excessive amount of, you’ll launch the complete fury of the hive. Hold your eyes peeled for the hidden most important nest as effectively. A phrase of warning: piss off their kin and you will launch the complete fury of the hive.”

Nice. Simply fabulous. Wasps will come from a wasps’ nest that gamers can find and try and tackle, whereupon you will face a military of offended yellowjackets and the brand new boss creature of the Wasp Queen. Brrr. No less than killing her helps you to craft a brand new armour set and trinket.

This update additionally sees Grounded develop into Steam Deck verified, and with all these new frills and options the game is having a free interval that begins in some unspecified time in the future as we speak and can run till Could 1: So you possibly can tackle some wasps your self